Israel

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Israel is the ancestral cradle of many contradictory elements. Its history is
five thousand years old, but the nation as it exists today is one of the world's
primary centres of high technology. Israel's vital mosaic of people, customs,
and social experience is unequalled in the world. The photographs in this
book portray the striking natural beauty of this land and the passionate
character of its proud people. !1
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JLsrael thrives on contradiction. Although it is a
relatively new nation, it stands at the forefront of
technology, its people turned passionately toward the
future. But they have not forgotten a single moment
of their past - the origin of their spiritual resources.
From the country's desert sands and from the
darkness of its caverns, vestiges of ancient times
resurface: Israelite fortresses, Roman amphitheatres,
Byzantine churches, and castles dating back to the
crusades. Israel is a melting pot in which a universal
unity and a wealth of unequalled... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Israel is the ancestral cradle of many contradictory elements. Its history is
five thousand years old, but the nation as it exists today is one of the world's
primary centres of high technology. Israel's vital mosaic of people, customs,
and social experience is unequalled in the world. The photographs in this
book portray the striking natural beauty of this land and the passionate
character of its proud people. !1
T
JLsrael thrives on contradiction. Although it is a
relatively new nation, it stands at the forefront of
technology, its people turned passionately toward the
future. But they have not forgotten a single moment
of their past - the origin of their spiritual resources.
From the country's desert sands and from the
darkness of its caverns, vestiges of ancient times
resurface: Israelite fortresses, Roman amphitheatres,
Byzantine churches, and castles dating back to the
crusades. Israel is a melting pot in which a universal
unity and a wealth of unequalled social experience
prevail. Hundreds of kibbutzim testify to the birth of
a new way of life, and, after centuries of neglect, the
land is rich with fertile fields and crops. The country
represents the realisation of a dream born of a
people's will to return to their homeland after twenty
centuries of Diaspora. It is a microcosm of ethnic
groups, a meeting point for countless peoples,
cultures, and civilisations all drawn to this strip of
land by the promise of the Biblical prophecy.
Israel is a land of ancestral history and unexpected
natural beauty, but it is the human landscape that
best portrays this young nation's role as a vital
presence in the world today. Vissza